Washington Heights Eviction Risk: Elevated , Chicago

Severe burden reaches 29%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate. The clearest offset is supply constraint at 1.3/10.

On the high side, local political climate reads 8.5/10. Average gross rent is $1,106, 23% below the Chicago average. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

The filing record is not thin: 357 evictions over 15 years of observation. Filings peaked in 2004 at 4.3% of renter households.

This ground was mapped C ("Definitely Declining") on the 1930s HOLC security maps for Chicago. That grading determined who could get a mortgage, and its imprint on tenure and rent burden is still visible in the ACS data above. In a typical year about 3.5% of renter households face a filing.

That is riskier than roughly 79% of the 84,120 US census tracts in this model. Social vulnerability reads 4.4/10 on the CDC index, a measure of exposure to housing and economic shocks.

Rent consumes only 13% of average household income of $98,897, an unusually wide affordability cushion. Statewide the IL average is 5.1, so this tract runs 1.0 points hotter.

It tracks the Cook County average of 6.1 closely.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.